The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1887-12-29

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A sreat many New Yofkers have declared
themselves ashamed Of wsshlngson market.
Probably the main reason liss In the fact
that Il b only one story high. Cedric the
Saxon, told about In ''Ivanhoe," he'd house
built upon the same principle which he was
exceedingly proud Of, but TO be sure there Il
no reason why New Yorkers Of this day
should be bound by the taste Of Cedric the
Saxon. There is feeling that . market 10
be fairly creditable 10 the city ought to be
built in fifteen or twenty stories, % that
different products could be displayed
on different Aoors-beef, for instance
on the first, mutton on the second, and
30 on to the top, which might be de-
voted TO reed birds. For my part,
have long thought that there IL considerable
attrNetiveness in the Washington market
which we have. For one thing II II an his
toric place. Many times while resting In
its shadows have pondered upon the peo-
pie who have known II, and to whom In one
way or another II has administered. Our
packet ships used to come in at the wharves
nearby In the days when Captain eamuels
commanded the Dreadnsught, and when
American clippers were in the habit Of
showing their heels to all rivals; and many
strangers nom over the sea-eminent and
obscure, remarkable and commonplace -be-
held this venerable market, and warmed
themselves with the cheer Of its associated
coffee stalls, in what we call the good old
times. Very likely IL was one Of the first
places in the New World that the exiled
Garibaldi set eyes upon, and I refrain from
intimating how many Others Of an illustri-
Gus line Of evicted patriots looked upon It in
the early days and reflected upon the posi-
tied Insurgents, If only they might be backed
with such magnificent commissariat. From
. consideration Of that honorable and en-
viable host who have carried on business in
the market also refrain, except that I would
like to say that the invincible Tom Hyer,
the true American, and the chief Of pugilists
ofa past age, was an actor amid these scenes,
butcher among these stalls, and that It
was in this beef and this mutton that he
found the nurture for those tremendous
thews and muscles which triumphed over
every adversary that ever came against him,
except one-the pistol bullet which termi-
mated his earthly career.
Without doubt it is in measure incon-
gruous to be thinking of that great, burly
and stormy citizen as stand here on the
edge Of Washington market this night.
when Christmas Is at hand and when the
snow Is falling. ! look upon the snow a.
one Of the chief mercles that the city knows.
It hides the edges and hushes the clatter.
The moonlight does as much for the eye,
but nothing for the ear. in the city. do
not know whether any one has ever esti-
mated how much injury il wrought to hui
man nerves by the incessant beating Of the
iron-shod wheels and hoofs of this stupen-
dous town upon its oobble-stones, but I do
know that when It SHOWS here I feel like .
man coming out Of nightmare OF getting
well Of fever. The snow ID very beautiful
when It comes tossing into the streets in
the daytime, but It makes positive
magic II the gas-lamps are lighted. To
night II dies - though It had mind to
overwhelm ~. II will be q white Christ.
mas, and the graveyards will not be fattened.
The narrow streets are filled with the snow.
1t darts along and across. and swirls up
ward, fine and buoyant, like smoke, or the
spray Of the sea. The lamps are yellow
blurs. The horizon ID very near, and people
come out Of It and vanish into It with sur
prising suddenness. It might be horizon
Of wool, arranged for wayfaren to pass
through easily, but offering an absolute bar
rier to the vision. Across the narrow area
that IL visible men 60 plunging and rolling,
with . swing Of the shoulders such q sailors
have. They are bonnetsd and epauleted
with white; their breath is smoke; their
tread d without sound. Only the ghosts Of
trucks and wagons are abroad; they arc
visible. but shadowy and noissles.
Lot % look into the market. Il was cheer
full without, and within II d cheerful. Here
d city, with . hundred Streets, walled into
beef and mutton instead Of houses. There
are chickens enough hare TO have furnished
ali ancient Greece with potpie, and geese
and ducks enough to make . pontoon bridge
across the Amazon. There b ffesh and corned
meat, Chicago dressed and home killed:
there are pig and apples and acrss Of nam-
Ing cranbenies. From great iron hooks
hang the carcassss Of dssz, harss, quail,
partddges and al the game the continent
affords. and turkeys in this vast intesior arc
- countless - the snowtiakm outsida. Who
cares II It y ramshackls and al On the
groundf There h no peee to Il IN I'll The
markets Of tho world.
Al I try TO look about am jostled by
aproned butohsrs and by the miscellaneous
crowd. What crowd II d which the gas
lights Of Washington market reveall It Q
loosely-ooustructsd market, with very hospi-
tably open sides, and II does seam q though
the whole town had come In or was coming.
Behind the corner Of , stall Hnd . nook,
which Il out Of the tide. and from which
am able to look around . little. All the
butchers are burly and red OF fAce, and the
ret Of the throng Il for the most part ruddy
from the storm and bundled up into rotund
shapes; 20 It happens that my notice is d.
rectly attracted BY . pale and slendef man
who 10 drifting along toward me with the
stream. His seedy gray hair frames some
what cadavsrous faoa. which he holds up